Άρα λάθος του μεταφραστή, που διάβασε το Lamed σαν να ήταν αγγλική λέξη κι όχι εβραϊκή.
Εμένα πάντως από τα τέρατα της Βρετανικής Βιβλιοθήκης μου άρεσαν πολλά, αλλά ξεχωρίζω αυτό:
On Patmos, John (the Evangelist probably)
wrote revelations, an apocalyptic prophecy.
A mischievous demon tried to spoil the plot
by sneakily stealing John’s ink pot.
γιατί μου θυμίζει έντονα τον Τιτίβιλλο.
Ποιος είναι ο Τιτίβιλλος;
Α, μα είναι ο δαίμονας που ταλαιπωρεί τους γραφείς γεννώντας τυπογραφικά λάθη!
Titivillus - the Typo Demon
Titivillus (sometimes spelled ‘Tutivillus’) is a demon. He works on behalf of Lucifer, or Satan, or Belphegor, and in the Middle Ages is the one who loves to introduce errors into a scribe’s work as soon as the scribe’s concentration lapses.
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In particular, Titivillus would note all the idle gossip and chit-chat that inevitably went on during the long church services. This was of course a warning to congregations that any lack of concentration during prayers would not go unnoticed or unpunished, since such negligence of their devotions was depriving God of the prayers and praise that were His due.
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In the good old days, time was not necessarily of the essence in a remote monastery when it came to producing an illuminated Bible (one with pages or initial letters richly decorated with gold, silver, or coloured designs). A scribe could toil for many years over a single great work. But in the Renaissance everything speeded up. The result was, predictably, a huge increase in the number of errors. But now the monks had a scapegoat: Titivillus. Errors and typos were not their fault; they were deliberately introduced by that demon.
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In the Internet age we need Titivillus more than ever. We need him in his role as gatherer of all the idle Internet Chat and gossip, to stop it overwhelming us. And we need him as the Renaissance scribes needed him, as a scapegoat: the malevolent entity upon whose head we can heap all the errors and typos and omissions and inaccuracies that we find daily on the Internet.
Titivillus (Wikipedia)
In an anonymous fifteenth-century English devotional treatise, Myroure of Oure Ladye, Titivillus introduced himself thus (I.xx.54):
“I am a poor devil, and my name ys Titivillus ... I must each day ... bring my master a thousand pokes full of failings, and of negligences in syllables and words”
Κατόπιν αυτών ποιο μουσικό κομμάτι ταιριάζει εδώ, Δαεμάνε;